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Join Us Friday Morning for an American Choral Directors Association Peace Event

March 05, 2009

Members of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), in Oklahoma City for the association’s 50th annual National Conference, will gather at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum for a Peace Event at 9 a.m., March 6, 2009. The public is invited to join conference attendees for this free choral concert on the Outdoor Symbolic Memorial. The event will be led by Grammy nominated choral ensemble Conspirare, and will also feature Oklahoma City’s Canterbury Youth Chorus and the University of Oklahoma Brass Choir. The words of American and Native American poets Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry and Joy Harjo will be read. Music from Maurice Duruflé's Requiem will be featured as well as the moving song Requiem dedicated to victims of disaster by singer-songwriter Eliza Gilkyson. In addition to brief choral presentations by the featured musicians and ensembles, the expected 3000-plus attendees will participate in an extraordinarily special collage of community singing, spoken word and shared silence.

The Choir rehearsed Thursday evening to a crowd of Memorial visitors. Please join us Friday morning for this very special concert!

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